Starting Chapter 9

I feel so much better then yesterday.  Still coughing, but almost no head congestion and voice starting to come back.  Had quite a lot to drink, lost count because I was busy and in different offices, think 5 or 6, so not that great now I think about it.  Read more of the Schwarzbein principle, now starting chapter 9.

It is so interesting but makes me despair that I will never learn how to have a balanced meal.  I have now added drinking whole milk, well 4% that they call whole milk.  2 days in a row I have had a small container a day.  I had 2 read it in two places before I really acknowledged it and added it to my lifestyle.  I grew up on 2% then 1% milk.  Always believing low fat is better is a really hard thing to change, but I am willing.

I stepped out of the toilet stall at the office I was working at today and saw myself in the mirror, really saw myself, not the thing I normally do, look at the kitten I am holding, or a specific feature.  I have to loose weight and become fit.  I never knew I was at an ok fitness level when I was younger because most people I knew where so much fitter, but that is the military.

Now I need to learn how to cook a balanced healthy meal, then there are meal plans, I really want to learn how to create those and eat well while looking weight.

I have never been bothered with things like my cholesterol count.  All my friends were, but I thought if I feel healthy then why bother.  Glad I had that attitude because it is making his book a little easier to take.  Her attitude is that looking at one test is well to coin a british term, is pants.  The body is a complicated system that interconnects rather then one thing being wrong there are balances that need to be maintained which mean looking at the whole not part.

I like that idea, but it makes thinking about diet more complicated

Katherine

Can’t really mean Whole Milk!

I feel so much better then yesterday.  Still coughing, but almost no head congestion and voice starting to come back.  Had quite a lot to drink, lost count because I was busy and in different offices, think 5 or 6, so not that great now I think about it.  Read more of the Schwarzbein principle, now starting chapter 9.

It is so interesting but makes me despair that I will never learn how to have a balanced meal.  I have now added drinking whole milk, well 4% that they call whole milk.  2 days in a row I have had a small container a day.  I had 2 read it in two places before I really acknowledged it and added it to my lifestyle.  I grew up on 2% then 1% milk.  Always believing low fat is better is a really hard thing to change, but I am willing.

I stepped out of the toilet stall at the office I was working at today and saw myself in the mirror, really saw myself, not the thing I normally do, look at the kitten I am holding, or a specific feature.  I have to loose weight and become fit.  I never knew I was at an ok fitness level when I was younger because most people I knew where so much fitter, but that is the military.  The same for thin, I never thought I was at a good weight, because everyone said I was not, I think Size 10 is great and all those who ever made me feel fat are wrong and better out of my life, or for all those I am related to, keep them at an emotional distance.

Now I need to learn how to cook a balanced healthy meal, then there are meal plans, I really want to learn how to create those and eat well while looking weight.

I have never been bothered with things like my cholesterol count.  All my friends were, but I thought if I feel healthy then why bother.  Glad I had that attitude because it is making his book a little easier to take.  Her attitude is that looking at one test is well to coin a British term, is pants.  The body is a complicated system that interconnects rather then one thing being wrong there are balances that need to be maintained which mean looking at the whole not part.

I like that idea, but it makes thinking about diet more complicated.

Katherine

Schwarzbein principle now starting on chapter 5

it is so interesting what bad diet does to your body. I never knew about seritonin or that that is what makes a person happy. It does make sense that this can be depleted by bad diet and ‘drugs’. I was on the same medication for over 10 years, slowly gaining weight until it was like an avalanche, the more weight you gain the more depressed you get and less you sleep.

most nights I don’t sleep well, and feel so groggy in the morning it is like I did not get any sleep. All day I have to force myself to do anything. Now makes sense. Instead of eating breakfast as a goal that I might actually try, I am going to force myself to start the day right.

I said in my last blog that my goal was to drink 10 glasses of water. Have not quite met that had a small container of whole milk, 3 cans of perrier water and 3 mugs of tea, 1 herbal and 2 regular because I lost my voice today and needed a hot drink. I will have another glass of water or herbal tea when I get home.

Think tomorrow I will have to make an effort to drink at least 7 glasses of liquid.

Another diet book

I have started reading yet another book on diet. The last one had me on an extremely severe diet and at least an hour of exercise a day. I have always wanted to have a healthy life style, but found that exercise and eating fairly healthy did not work. Of course I was on medication that everyone gains weight on.

Now I’m off the medication and can’t shift the weight. I feel myself getting unhealthier. So I find myself looking at the dreaded diet. But I don’t want something that I follow for months, get to a good weight, then balloon back again. So I am looking at healthy eating. The book I am reading is the Schwarzbein Principle. It is how fad diets can do a lot of damage, but if you are living a balanced lifestyle, eating healthy with exercise then you should attain your perfect weight. I already have a head start on healthy living, I don’t drink tea or coffee. I don’t count the herbal teas because I drink the ones with no caffeine. I don’t smoke and usually drink a load of water. My real vice is alcohol. Overall not that bad.

As I am only on chapter 2 and she really has not gone though the ‘diet’ I would start slow. Tomorrow I am going to try for the 10 glasses of water she recommends. Think there will be a lot of toilet runs.

Slow and steady.

I fell off but not in the normal way

I am not on any strange diets, but I am trying to eat healthy and regular meals.  But I went to bed late, then was woken by a kitten too early then missed my alarm clock and slept in.  I feel bad, headache and sluggish.  I have a ton to do and feel like nothing is getting done, the day has passed me by.

My breakfast was good, wheat bars with milk.  Then I didn’t feel like eating until after 3pm, where I ate pasta bake and some really old biscuits.  I really need to eat at proper times and have proper meals.

Tomorrow is a new day, my goal is to eat at set times!

Katherine